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Refugee Camps: Rohingya and Pictures

refugee camps: He was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city and far from the western state of Rakhine, where bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into refugee camps in Bangladesh, according to The Chronicle Herald. When we first saw those pictures, we started laughing. For the 41-year-old Rohingya man, it was a surreal moment. We wondered When will it be our turn to have our pictures in the paper Muddinn, a teacher, said in an interview in his Yangon home. The pictures are the latest in a series of chilling realizations for the Rohingya minority here. Behind the laughter, though, there is genuine fear. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.